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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charles Dickens

Life Myself Heart Great

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Winston Churchill

Politics Business Game

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

Friendship Love Good Time

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Knowledge I Am Born Who

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Henry David Thoreau

You Squirrel Dies Jest

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Truth I Am Humble Very

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Work Today Children World

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People Stand Thoughtful Public

I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

W. E. B. Du Bois

I Am Black Training White

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

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Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

War American Participation Civil War

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

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That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Charlie Chaplin

I Am Matter Hat Always

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Truth True Always More

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

Humble Christian Try Concern

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good Praise Admire Us

I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.

Life Stars Mind Rock

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

You Your Person Always

I knew credibility would come only in time and through earnest performances.

Time Only Through Come

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

You Energy He Vibe

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

God World Know Will

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

Women Man He Chicago

It wasn't until I began to work out in earnest that I became aware of what I was eating. When I became more mindful about exercise, I became more mindful about eating.

Khloe Kardashian

Work Eating Exercise More

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

Louis Farrakhan

Sad Day Country Revolution

Almost without exception, President Obama begins serious policy discussions by explaining why everyone else is wrong. After he assigns straw men to your views, he enthusiastically attempts to knock them down with a theatrically earnest re-litigation of what you've missed about his brilliance.

Mitch McConnell

You Men Down Serious

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

William Lloyd Garrison

I Am Will Single Retreat

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